In order for B/E Aerospace, Inc. ("B/E") to comply with recent legal developments in the United States, we require your immediate assistance and support. The legal requirement is found in Section 1502 of the "Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act" which identifies certain "Conflict Minerals" as financing armed conflict in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and its adjoining countries. To comply with these legal requirements, B/E must obtain accurate information from you and our other suppliers about whether raw materials, components or other parts ("Goods") in our products contain these Conflict Minerals (currently limited to tungsten, tin, tantalum, gold and their derivatives). If any tungsten, tin, tantalum, gold or their derivatives are present in our products, whether they are sourced from the Democratic Republic of the Congo and its adjoining countries or not, we must trace them to their source to determine whether or not they may be declared "DRC conflict free" or not and report our findings.
We have identified your company as a supplier of Goods that may contain tungsten, tin, tantalum, gold or their derivatives. To determine the conflict status of the Goods that you provide to B/E or any of its operations, we need you to respond to our survey with accurate and complete information so we can properly report the status of our products. If necessary, we retain the right to review the documentation on which you base your response.
In addition, if you provide Goods to B/E that include finished components or parts procured from sub-tier suppliers, you must request similar information regarding the presence and source of tungsten, tin, tantalum, gold and their derivatives from those suppliers.
The questionnaire which we require your company to complete can be found at the following link https://encorp.beaerospace.com. This questionnaire must be completed by FEBRUARY 15, 2016.
Follow these steps in order to logon and then submit your questionnaire once you click the above link:
1. Type your username (yours is klinhom.c) and your password (your account was pre-existing so you must use your existing B/E password).
2. Click the Conflict Minerals tab
3. Complete all sections of the questionnaire. (Clicking the "Save" button at the bottom will allow you to save your work if you plan on coming back to complete it later but it will not send the information to B/E.)
4. Click the "Submit" button at the bottom of the form to complete the questionnaire and send the response to B/E.
It is possible that multiple individuals in your company may receive the request from B/E to complete this questionnaire. Only one questionnaire needs to be completed by each company for such company as a whole. Please kindly email your company's principal point of contact to ConflictMinerals@beaerospace.com so that we can update our contact list accordingly. Each question must be answered fully and we are not able to accept incomplete responses.
Should you require technical assistance with use of the questionnaire site, please contact Lisa Firestone at lisa_firestone@beaerospace.com.
Specific questions related to conflict minerals can be addressed to Krissy Dixon at Krissy_Dixon@beaerospace.com.
We would like to thank you in advance for your cooperation in completing the questionnaire.